MISD board candidates weigh in on local, state issues

Published 2:52 pm, Saturday, October 4, 2014

Students rush to class and put their school notebooks in lockers Wednesday on the first day back to school. Tim Fischer\Reporter-Telegram

Students rush to class and put their school notebooks in lockers Wednesday on the first day back to school. Tim Fischer\Reporter-Telegram

Photo: Tim Fischer\Reporter-Telegram

MISD board candidates weigh in on local, state issues

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With a Midland ISD board of trustees seat up for grabs, three candidates are making the case for why they are the most qualified to fill District 4’s vacancy in a special election.

The contenders are Rachel Stone, president of the Midland Hispanic Chamber of Commerce; Jeff Robnett, an attorney who practices criminal and family law; and Kurtis Nodolf, who will soon join Pella Corp. to work in outside sales.

District 4 includes parts of central and southwest Midland and is home to Burnet, Long, Lamar, Houston and Bowie elementary schools.

Early voting in person runs from Oct. 20-31, and Election Day is Nov. 4.

Each of the candidates sat down with the Reporter-Telegram over the course of the last two weeks to talk about the important issues — both state and local — including a secondary building initiative, MISD’s areas of needed improvement and, of course, Midland’s perennial issue: recapture payments to the state.

Click below to see what the candidates said about the district's most pressing issues.